Amara Graps
@amaragraps
Dr. Planetary Scientist. 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 Baltic Space Entrepreneur in Rīga. Occasional asteroid miner. Muscovy Crimes Explainer. NAFO. Quantum Progress.
Approaching 900 views (!) in 3 days, thank you for the interest! 👉 NAFO Forum tny.lv/HNdWz @DucuGavril now has follow on NAFO Forum pieces starting here: 👉 "When Liberation Became the Language of Empire": shorturl.at/e2uMU
Elon Musk's DOGE last year was one of the drivers for me to dig deep into the auditors story from 1940 about how the Baltic countries were transformed so fast into USSR 'PSR's. At NAFO Forum: nafoforum.org/magazine/the... (1)https://x.com/0808Iveta/status/2082556008212160547
NATO on the Eastern Flank DID wake up. That's the >50K soldiers (to Belarus and Russia's 7K) for ZAPAD-2025. It is not fighting the asymmetric grey war that Russia is fighting, however.
Tim's instincts are right. Remember ZAPAD-2025? NATO responded with >50K soldiers in a month-long series of military exercises. Russia's MO is deception. It used the cover of ZAPAD-2025 to probe. See Poland: From the 🔍 Hybrid War Tracker Handbook: tny.lv/iZIH0
The Estonian digital archives had jaw-dropping stories with every page. Today's tools can translate and string the pieces together. I had to cut some stories because my article was already 36 pages. Here is one that put my heart in my throat. Look at the date. 2 mos before Occupation. tny.lv/if5w5
How it Began. ' The Moscow Circus' @ NAFO Forum nafoforum.org/magazine/the...
⚡ The 1️⃣st Quantum Security Defence World Symposium! 🗝️ 🌏 🚀 Quantum Security Defence Closing the Conference before a walk in Paris, Anna Beata Kalisz Hedegaard thanked everyone, and then asked: “We are a growing community ... please spread the word..” #QSECDEF2026Paris
Keynote Presentation: Operational ⚛️ Quantum Advantage in 🪖 Defence Joe Spencer from Global Quantum Intelligence: “The are multiple types of advantage in Defence: You have information advantage You have decision advantage You have effect advantage” #QSECDEF2026Paris
Keynote Presentation: ⚛️ Quantum 📞 Communication: MBDA Use Cases Edouard Debry: “With entanglement, we can teleport qubits and distribute.” Frederic Lesage: “Of PQC: MBDA has invested alot of money to innovate.” #QSECDEF2026Paris
Panel: 🪖 Defending ⚛️Post Quantum 🔢 Digital 👀 Reality Adrian Neal from QuStream: “Your most vulnerable point in your organization is your coffee machine because it has been there for a long time and people have forgotten about it." #QSECDEF2026Paris
Panel: 🪖 Defending ⚛️Post Quantum 🔢 Digital 👀 Reality Marin Ivezic (@ivezic.bsky.social) from Applied Quantum (@appliedquantum.bsky.social): "The CBOM is not a spreadsheet; it changes very quickly. The good thing is that the regulators are moving to a realistic layered approach.” #QSECDEF2026Paris
Panel: 🪖 Defending ⚛️Post Quantum 🔢 Digital 👀 Reality Adam McElroy from Eclypses Inc: “Within your nation-state, there are other aspects of legislation: whether it is resilience, whether it is stability, whether it is accountability of key directors.” #QSECDEF2026Paris
Panel: 🪖 Defending ⚛️Post Quantum 🔢 Digital 👀 Reality Eric Piroux from Entrust Corp: “In long-life data, like a mortgage or a contract or any of these critical documents, the risk is more critical than harvest now, decrypt later.” #QSECDEF2026Paris
Panel: 🪖 Defending ⚛️Post Quantum 🔢 Digital 👀 Reality Anna: (mod), Adam McElroy, @ivezic.bsky.social , Adrian Neal , Eric Piroux “We need to spread the knowledge, but because of the threat timelines, we also need a coordinated implementation. To close the gaps.” #QSECDEF2026Paris
🚄 Industry 🩺 Pulses Alessandra Jabłonowska from Perspektywy Women in Tech "Quantum is not a silo." "One Sol'n: Women in Tech Summit June 10-11 '26" “Across all sectors: only 20-25% of cited experts are women” "Another Solution: Quantum Pioneers Legacy Initiative" #QSECDEF2026Paris
🚄 Industry 🩺 Pulses Luke Pulsford from Quantum Security Search “Three Waves, Two Tracks, Five Actions in the Quantum Talent Ecosystem” Treat these two as separate hiring channels: Track 1: Governance & Discovery Track 2: PQC Implementation #QSECDEF2026Paris
🚄 Industry 🩺 Pulses Anthony Ricci from DigiCert: “The challenges that we see that our customers have is around adoption.” “It's not just about deploying and generating those keys, it is also ensuring that the configuration of your systems are ready.” #QSECDEF2026Paris
🚄 Industry 🩺 Pulses Mads Kalisz Hedegaard from RheinmetallAG : "Our vision is a TRANSPARENT tactical battlefield. Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance.” #QSECDEF2026Paris
🚄 Industry 🩺 Pulses Niki Harris from QSECDEF: “We want to provide you with more. Our updated web page has: Consolidated news sources. New directory with Quantum security companies. We are building a threat intelligence platform for trend analysis." #QSECDEF2026Paris
🚄 Industry 🩺 Pulses Eric Piroux from Entrust Corp “We believe that digital identity is the new cybersecurity parameter.” #QSECDEF2026Paris
🚄 Industry 🩺 Pulses Owen O’Donnell from Viavi Solutions: “PQC can give a false sense of security. You must understand all of the impacts. The best place to understand it, is in the lab. Then can you mitigate and test and validate them.” #QSECDEF2026Paris
🚄 Industry 🩺 Pulses Maria Ksenia Witte: “In quantum we talk about interference patterns. Ecosystems show that too. “ “Incentives compound over time, this is how distortion shows up later.” #QSECDEF2026Paris
🚄 Industry 🩺 Pulses Michael Baczyk @quantumexpert.bsky.social from Heartcore Capital: “It’s not about counting qubits, but about building quantum that can scale. Europe has more cards in that game” #QSECDEF2026Paris
⚡ Keynote: 🧔♀️ Civilian 🌃 Space 🗝️ Cybersecurity and 🪖 Defence José Pizarro De La Iglesia from @esa.int “Now systems are distributed. EVERYTHING is a datacenter, even your mobile phone is an unlicensed ground station” #QSECDEF2026Paris
Keynote: 🗝️ Securing the 🤖 Future of 🛰️ Mission-Critical 📞 Communications Olivier Duroyon from Nokia: “Industry has no alternative to reduce current risk and to prepare for the future risks” #QSECDEF2026Paris
Panel: 🌍 Perspective on ⚛️Quantum in 🗝️Security & 🪖Defence Nydia Assaf Aragon: “We need different paths that will provide more quantum individuals rapidly. We need a mentality shift to transition those with a lot of knowledge.” #QSECDEF2026Paris